Between Speech and Silence: Islamic Fairy Tales as a Mystical Bridge in the Siyasatnama and Sufi Traditions
Religions April 4, 2026 Fehmi Ünsalan, Sema Ülper Oktar
This article posits that Islamic fairy tales function as a mystical bridge of speech, a discursive passage that, within the siyasatnama tradition, summons the subject toward ethico-political responsibility, while in Sufi narrative, it carries the seeker beyond the limits of language toward a transformative silence. Reading Indo-Persian and Ottoman siyasatnama texts alongside the Sufi classics...